Pin Eight is the personal web site of Damian Yerrick. You may be interested in one or more of his projects:
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 Luminesweeper
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 TOD
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Posted on July 15, 2008
Nintendo has announced Animal Crossing: CITY FOLK for Wii. Watch this space, but look out for vandalism. CITY FOLK is due in North America by Christmas 2008, but fans of Super Smash Bros. Brawl will likely remember Nintendo's last missed deadline.
Posted on July 9, 2008
In June 2007, my character in Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Wild World game for Nintendo DS paid off his mortgage and all expansions and got his house looking nice. At that point, I didn't know what was worth fighting for, so I broke the habit and stopped playing regularly. Now I'm ready to unbreak it.
If you want your ACWW town fixed up, and your DS can connect to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Picken Landscape can help you. (No connection to needlework or alternative energy, obviously.)
Posted on June 9, 2008
Some web sites use CAPTCHAs to try to distinguish valuable human users from abusive automated processes. But several CAPTCHA implementations exclude blind human users. Not all have this problem; reCAPTCHA is among several popular CAPTCHAs that offers both a visual test and an audio test. Today, I figured out a reasonably polite message for people to paste into an e-mail to the administrator of an inaccessible web site:
The CAPTCHA on this page has a visual test but not an audio test. A CAPTCHA with only a visual test is not accessible to blind people. Have you considered using reCAPTCHA, which has both a visual test and audio test?
Posted on May 25, 2008
In the Tetris scene, fan games are implementations of the tetromino game created by fans without a license from The Tetris Company. They can do this because the rules of a game are not subject to copyright in the US and possibly elsewhere. Fan games especially popular with hardcore players include Heboris, Texmaster, and Lockjaw. Some players post videos of their achievements to YouTube. But in mid-April 2008, Arika, developer of Tetris The Grand Master arcade games, made YouTube take down videos of Heboris and Texmaster, accusing the posters of copyright infringement.
This video will probably get flagged:
Posted on April 15, 2008
The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Another Ugly Deutsche Invention.
The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.
The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Always Unsafe Designs Implemented.
The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Always Under Diagnostic Inspection.
I'm running up against a ridiculous boss in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Why would Nintendo give a one-hit full-screen kill move to a fighting game character? Is it to make some sort of faux time limit, such that you have to drain the opponent's health before the opponent takes all your lives away with one hit each?
Posted on April 1, 2008
The pink color scheme you see here is not an April Fools Day joke. It's a protest against T-Mobile, which claims the exclusive right to use the color magenta.
Posted on February 15, 2008
Yes, it is still possible to start your life over from next to nothing in America.
Posted on February 3, 2008
Tonight, you might want to skip Super Bowl XLII in protest. The NFL is trying to prohibit faith-based community centers to show the game just because they don't serve liquor. You know the Pats are probably going to win anyway.
But if think your life will have no meaning without Big Game 42, you can contemplate the number XLII. Once you're done, look at the LOCKJAW page for another Big Game 42 that you can download and play.
Posted on January 31, 2008
In a large chunk of the United States, the Republican primary election is this Tuesday. If you live in one of the states that will be voting on Super Tuesday, take a hard look at the situation.
Spending by the U.S. government has grown out of control. One out of seven Americans has no health insurance, not because of too little federal regulation, but because of too much. The U.S. dollar is in the toilet, and this acts as a hidden tax on Americans. So does the constant borrowing from countries without freedom of speech, just to finance a war in Iraq. And the government has been doing an end-run around the Fourth Amendment's protection of privacy.
It's time for a change. In fact, it's time for a rƎVO⌋ution.
Posted on January 13, 2008
No, Tetris isn't coming to Wii. But I can play LOCKJAW on a dance pad.
Posted on January 1, 2008
My cousins got new DS games over the past month: Drawn to Life and March of the Minis. I've updated RAC to name the games' save files distinctly.
Posted on November 24, 2007
After a month of prodding and deletion of non-notable albums by non-notable bands on a non-notable label, Wikipedia is once again Serious Business.
Oh, and I updated the site's policies today, including the privacy policy.
Posted on October 17, 2007
I've discovered a paint program called Colors! for the DS. I managed to draw this:
![[Colors drawing]](ds/colors/Front_yard.jpg "Front yard")
You can even play back the sequence of brush strokes on the picture's page on Colors! Gallery.
Posted on September 8, 2007
New DS homebrew release: memtestARM
Posted on August 4, 2007
I've updated several of my mini-essays in RAnT to match the state of the world in 2007. It and the GBA, NES, PC sections have also been migrated to the new layout.
Posted on July 28, 2007
The site is changing to a newer, cleaner look and feel. It has these benefits for readers:
It also eases updates:
The transition will happen page by page. Pages that have not updated will still use the old look and feel.
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